Francesco Rabissi

Interests

Teaching

Film Studies, Italian and World Cinema, Italian Literature, Modern Italian Culture and History, Contemporary Italian politics and society

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Rabissi, F. (2022). Intersezioni tra cinema e politica in Salò di Pier Paolo Pasolini. In Intersections/Intersezioni.
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  This article analyzes Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film, Salò, as emblematic of the Brechtian paradigm for the interaction between cinema and politics.

Journals/Publications

• Rabissi, F. (2019). The body of Milan in Gabriele Basilico and Michelangelo Antonioni. The Journal of Architecture, 24(8), 1084-1095. doi:10.1080/13602365.2019.1708777
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  Gabriele Basilico and Michelangelo Antonioni shared an interest in urban landscape and each developed a distinct aesthetics inspired by this constant dialogue with architecture and urban spatial fo...
• Rabissi, F. (2018). Rielaborazioni del comico dantesco in Totò al giro d’Italia e Totò all’inferno. Italica, 95(4), 551-563.
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  The Divine Comedy has been the source of inspiration for many film adaptations. This essay investigates the influence of Dante's comic style on Italian comedian Totò and his Totò al giro d’Italia (Mario Mattoli, 1948) and Totò all’Inferno (Camillo Mastrocinque, 1955).
• Rabissi, F. (2017). Paolo Sorrentino's Youth. Italica, 94(3), 644.
• Rabissi, F. (2017). “La ‘fabbrica dei sogni’ ne Il caimano di Nanni Moretti,” Italian Quarterly (in print). Italian Quarterly, L(195 - 198), 32 - 44.